One thing I never see mentioned here is wildlife art. I don't have a lot, but one of the things I get a lot of enjoyment out of is the little bit of wildlife/western art that I have in the house.
I also love nice walnut stocks on rifles, but for the money, and more apt to buy a great print that I can put on the wall and enjoy every dau, rather than a nice stock to sit in the safe except for the times it gets taken out to be dinged dented and destroyed.
Anyone else enjoy Paul Calle, Robert Bateman and their ilk?

Fred

i've got a couple charles russell prints on my walls

Hi Fred,

We have a couple-three Robert Steiner paintings; my wife has known him personally a couple of decades. Also like Tom Mansanarez's artwork a lot. I've chatted with him at RMEF and suchlike events, and he's a nice guy too.

Dennis

Ah-Ha!

I have one Paul Calle, a mule deer done by a local talent, two fish carvings that are among my favorites, and a couple others done by unknowns. I enjoy finding great work done by people that are trying to get established.
Also, in wildlife art, I include mounted antlers which fascinate me. I think a simply mounted set of antlers is elegant.

Fred

One of my best friends is a pretty talented artist, Thomas Aquinas Daly.

He has only done a couple prints, mostly just originals. Oil on board and water colors. Years ago he did a bunch of limited edition etchings. He has a great coffee table book available if your interested. http://www.thomasaquinasdaly.com/

I am a poor person and do my own wildlife art.

have some framed prints i picked up at the auction at the Ducks Unlimited banquets over the last few years but nothing special.....also have one of Troy's(Big Sky) numbered prints on the wall and one waiting to get framed.....

Another of my originals.

I have quite a few done by well known Pennsylvania artists. Most of whom are women.

Hey Big Sky Troy - you still on here --???

Speaking of Troy, I have a couple of his prints.

LMAO, That was classic.

Fred...not really an aficianado, but who couldn't like Robert Bateman??? I tried to get a print of a coyote he did years ago...and it was off the charts price wise..
Ive got a CM Russell in here ( Mandatory.... ) and a John Banovich..plus a bronze of a Cape buffalo..I forgot who did it... so theres a tiny sampling here anyway....my attempt at "culture"...

Ingwe

Phillip Goodwin is my favorite though far out of my price range.

I do have Nancy Glazier, robert duncan, carl seybolt, marian anderson, jack poluh and Russ Walker (my Father).

I was stuck at a desk in a office for a bunch of years and western/wildlife art helped me deal with it.

By far my favorite.Wish the link did it justice.

http://store.colemans.com/cart/inquisitive-print-p-1073.html

Out here, Les Kouba is the top dog. He started it all back in 70's.

Ned Smith did some great work. Have a few myself.

Here is one of my favorite equestrian photos.

Look up Leon Parson and Ron Van Gilder if you want to see the best in the genre....their work is beyond comparison. My wife an I have a few of each's prints. Robert Bateman, like you say, is tops too....

FYI: The Southeastern Wildlife Expo in Charleston, SC each Valentines weekend is the greatest gathering of wildlife artist,and their work on the planet...well worth the trip there if you can ever make it.

Ron Van Gilder is excellent, although I do not have any of his work.

We have several pieces from Robert Bateman, plus David Maass, Michael Sieve (great whitetial artist), and one or two from Terry Redlin.

Daveman...I got Ron to autograph his last book at the Southeastern Wildlife expo last year...he also doodled a little duck hunting scene in the book for me as well. Sorry to say, he acted like he would rather be any other place on the earth than Charleston during the time my wife and I were with him. Also have some Maass and a ton of Redlin's. If you ever find yourself in South Dakota, head to his museum in Watertown....simply magnificent, and ultimately expensive too. We bought three paintings and one Artist Proof that about broke the bank. Good investments though as he is not able to personally sign any of his work anymore....Alzheimer's.

You're a lucky man. An image of one of his paintings is my laptop's desktop background.

Ned Smith: "December Snow"

About as good as it gets for a Whitetail print that depicts Pa. big-woods deer hunting.



Another Ned Smith: "Windfall Grouse"

"...Anyone else enjoy Paul Calle, Robert Bateman and their ilk?.."

Uh, I believe that is spelled "elk", no?

I like Van Gilder and Lee Kromschroeder...

I remember you mentioned that before. Which painting?

Weather permitting, I will hope to be hunting his farm this weekend.

One of my favorites is Tim Cox. He is more of a Western artist, but has some nice wildlife stuff as well. If I had $15k or $30k in my pocket I'd pick up an original.

Here is a nice mulie print he has. Tim Cox Mule Deer print

So is your stuff signed and numbered?????

Partial to Ned Smith, but his stuff got awfully expensive in the past decade or so. Laura Mark Findberg does some nice work, especially on small critters. Bob Sopchick is a good artist and an even better writer.

The only wildlife art I have are CC Lockwood photos of wildlife in South LA - mostly the spillway.

Same of my favorite artists are...

Leon Parson

http://www.leonparson.com/



Brent R Todd

http://www.brentrtodd.com/lo_gallery.html



Tom Mansanarez.

http://www.tommansanarez.com/


Hayden & Dallen Lambson

http://www.lambson-art.com/hayden/sheep/



Gary Swanson

http://www.collectorscovey.com/bignamwilser.html

Those are some awesome pictures!

Fred

This one:

Royce;
Thank you for the interesting thread this evening Fred, I'm very much enjoying the responses.

We've got a numbered print from this chap up in the living room. http://www.johnstonepaintings.com/

Ironically, it is of wolves and we've got a couple numbered prints from this lady in our bedroom, one of which has a wolf family in it. http://www.lissacalvert.ca/about.html

We've got a couple of very good pen and ink drawings from some BC artists who I can't find any information on so I'm not sure if they are even still with us. One is a group of 3 rams on a plateau by one G. Trolitsch that I really like.

As I type this, I can look up at a print of Charlie Russel's "Whose Meat" which I really think captures a whole lot of the very essence of hunting the high and lonesome country so many of us love.

http://www.moneymaker.com/GALLERY/WHOSEMT1.HTM

Thanks again for the the very fine thread and thanks to all who've answered.

I hope you and yours have a good weekend Fred.

Regards,
Dwayne

Have to agree on the Ned Smith prices. However, a natural consequence of no more being made.

Winston Churchill: One of the worlds best gun engravers has done some bronzes.

"Masters Reward"

I have prints that I enjoy by Leon Parson, Davis Maas, and Nancy Glazer. Clark Kelly Price is a great modern western artist, IMO.

I do carvings, some watercolors as well. The oldest boy does watercolor, youngest does decoys. I work with a guy named Skip Edwards, a fine duck carver, who helps me out when I get stuck.

I have a couple of John P. Cowan prints. IMO, he paints some of the best Texas hunting and fishing paintings. Herb Booth isn't too shabby either.

I have several prints by different artists, but my favorite has to be Leon Parson. I especially enjoy his No Tellum series.

+1 on John Cowan...his running west Texas buck, with hunters in the jeep is one of my favorites...I have a coffee table book of his art.

here is Troy's(Big Sky) speed goat pic i have framed.....dont have a pic of the mulie but can get one tonight....

It's always nice to see one's name mentioned in a positive light and especially with so many other names that I have so much respect for. Rattler the picture turned out nice. Did you do all the matting and framing yourself?

I'm a big Bateman and Parson fan myself. Both have had a lot of influence on me as an artist. However they are master's of their mediums with Bateman being a great acrylic artist and Parson doing most of his work in oil paint. I went a different direction with graphite, though I must admit a series of black and white drawings by Leon Parson is what influenced me that direction 20 years ago. I have never met Robert Bateman, but I have had the priviledge of standing in Leon's studio and talking with him fact to face. I have also been in his brother's home, Dale Parson, who is also an outstanding artist. As for me, I haven't done a whole lot new. I have kind'a shifted from animals with horns and antlers, to prdators, with the drawing below being my latest limited edition print.

Misty Morning Coyote


Here is one of the last antlered big game animal drawings I did before switching to predators. This one is only available as an original though.

Power Struggle

Cool Stuff Big Sky, nice work.

Carl Rungius, Bob Kuhn, Luke Frazier would top my list for wildlife art... not my favorite genre, but these guys are as good as it gets.

I like Kouba, Redlin and Kasper and of course Charlie

Dober

Dober, never thought of Charlie as a wildlife artist but that's just me.

I have some Luke Frazier and Rungius prints around the house, as well as a couple originals by a good South African artist named Kevin Thomas, and even a couple of nice original drawings by Ingwe!

Some of Monte Dolack is OK too, though not strictly wildlife. I have a Big Hole grayling print of his that I'm really fond of.

My avatar is wildlife art!

http://www.joshuaspies.com/images/a-muleDeerBig.jpg

I've been picture framing for the past 21 years. There certainly has been a steep drop off in the interest in wildlife art. Its not just because of the two recessions either. The present generation hasn't grown up with the exposure to hunting/fishing and there is a commensurate drop in wildlife art as well.
I rememember a RMEF banquet in the early 90's that I framed 71 prints. Now, you are lucky to have 15 framed.
Federal Duck Stamps and their prints are almost worthless in my area. You can hardly get your initial outlay back in resale.
It may cycle back but not in the foreseeable future I'm afraid.

Interesting, I need to get a link for my employers FIL... The guy has prints I believe that have gone for an easy $5000+ so I'm told.

I'll see what I can do..

Anyone have any of John C. Green's work (Madison, SD)? I like his late father's work a little better (Larry Green). Josh Spies' work has been getting better and better over the years, pretty darned good. Next state over, some of Rosemary Millette's work really grabs me.

There's a side of me that like Dolak as well and Zabel also.

Dober

Hey it's all in our own minds and how we see it but Charlies "Exaulted Ruler" is one nice piece as far as I'm concerned. The elk is nice but I always liked the Sharpie in it as well.

For 15 years I got to help cater a big event at the CM Russell museum that kicked off the art auction and there was a bit of his stuff that I really dug.

However you have to keep in mind that Shultz is one of my favs as well...<g>

Dober

When I started this thread, I was interested in hearing about any kind of art that would appeal to outdoors people, including scupture and even photography. Perhaps that is how I should have titled it. Any of the different kinds of art that have been mentioned here that do not strictly fir the definition "wildlife art" have certainly added to the discussion, not detracted from it.

Fred

JB, if you don't mind me asking, which of Carl Rungius' prints do you have?

I have quite a few Ed Tussey prints. Check them out if you like Alaskan art. Ed Tussey

For anyone that cares, there is a huge western/wildlife art show in Prescott Memorial weekend. It's invitation only for the artist so the quality is there.

Hummingbird Hangout by Judy Schrader Jan. 06 Pa. Game News cover.

My newest. Looking for a frame in barn siding.

HuntKY,

I have "Moose In The Woods" and "Caribou On Winter Range."

I like the way he did pronghorns, too. Another one I like is his bison painting, "The Last Of The Herd." I tend to prefer the more spare Rungius paintings, with fewer animals and more landscape.

The prints on my walls aren't strictly wildlife, either. One of my favorites is of a painting done by an Inuit artist that I picked up on a trip to the Northwest Territories some years ago. It shows an Inuit woman holding one of her children while sitting next to a campfire on a beach, during an Arctic summer sunset.

To tell the truth, I'm not real crazy about a lot of recent wildlife art, because of the phony representations of out-sized antlers, which of course is an outgrowth of the obsession with "book" animals.

One of my problems is where to put anything, because of all the dead animal parts in the house. Even table and cabinet tops are pretty full of skulls, containers full of game-bird feathers and African porcupine quills, hand-carved decoys and the odd wood or bronze sculpture. The truth is the house is too cluttered.

Can't believe Ken Carlson's name hasn't come up yet. He was a protege of Kuhn. Here are a few of his.....







He also did my avatar, just for me of course : )

Good to hear Russell prints are mandatory...I think they should be too.

I think he does both Western and wildlife very well. Here's one with both:

I sure like that lope one

Dober

Carl Brenders is good too...

dube, I have several of Laura's prints and will post a few later on. Here's a Pa. girl that does great work. Susan Bankey Yoder. Unfortunately this is the only print of hers that I have.It's watercolor and the birds feathers are simply vibrant.

Leon Parson is one of my favorites also. These four are our favorites of all of his we have



There are also a goodly number of Larry Zabel prints on the wall as well as many that are not framed. Cynthie Fisher also ranks high with us as she is a great artist and a very accomplished huntress. Prints have been a big weakness at this house over the years.

My favorite photographer is pictured below. Wyman Meinzer.

Wyman lives in the old jail in Benjamin, Texas. He is Texas official photographer. Wyman is the most proficient coyote and bobcat hunter that I know. Check out Amazon for a list of his photo books.
Butch

Here is a print I have by Dave Wade.
If I could only shoot the model.

Nancy Glazier's work catches my eye quicker than anything else. Something about it that I really like. A Luke Glazier has been mentioned, I'm assuming some relation?

I also really like Leon Parson, as well as the Manzanarez's.

I really enjoyed Michael Coleman's Book Cliff's series, although I can't really remember anything else of his.

JB, thanks. "Moose in the Woods" is one of my favorites as is "Big Horn Sheep". I like Carl's moose and sheep a lot. He is one of the best of all-time.

Salmonella, thanks for posting that. I'd forgotten about Dave Wade. I knew him back in the day before he became well known at all. I was in high school when I first met him and that was a very, very, long time ago. He's done some great work over the years.

Troy, i didnt frame it, a friend did......generally if it looks nice i didnt do it.....if it looks like chit but works, i prolly did it

Lynn Bogue Hunt: Probably have to have a few years on you to recognize this fellow. Did a lot of the old FS covers. Mostly upland works.

I've got half a dozen Stephen Lyman prints. He died in '88 and I bought these at that time. I especialy like his "Embers At Dawn". I also have a Leon Parson "Buck Fever On No-Tellum Ridge", which is my second favorite print ever, next to "Embers At Dawn". I wish I had gotten the whole No-Tellum series, but over a hundred dollars apiece was just too much...damn it.

Good Thread

This is a print I have up in the living room. It nicely compliments a European mount.



The artist is of course Georgia O'Keefe. Not really thought of as a wildlife artist, but I have always enjoyed her landscapes and still life works.

My favorite BG wildlife artist is also Leon Parson. Have owned and personally framed a few of his works I gave away as gifts. Parson is still alive, and sometimes highly sought by some folks or state departments (wildlife depts) to do specific works or depictions.

Something unique about everyone of his paintings or sketches is that each one dipicts something Parson has personally witnessed in his travels or time outdoors.

In other words, somewhere Mr Parson has indeed seen mule deer like the ones in his "No Tellum" series. They were not "imagined." I was once told that by his wife and marketing manager.

For western art my favorite painter is Frank McCarthy, and aviation art ..... Robert Taylor. Taylor's son is following in his dad's footsteps.

Another thing about Parsons' paintings is that he will "hide" little things in them. Mine has a little mink, complete with tracks in the snow.

StubbleDuck,
When I was visiting with Leon in his private painting studio the walls were covered with trophy animals he's taken. He is a super avid (and successful) big game hunter. There were several very nice mule deer on his wall among all the other critters.

I have Robert Batemans Artic White Wolves print.

A Painting from an artist in my local chapter of TU. It is Acrylic on wood painting of a Brook Trout.

A shadow box of drawings of flies with a hand tied fly on a cork under each picture.

Last a H. Bonnet oil on canvas orginal of my grandparents boat in Auke Bay.

Not a lot but I love the ones I do have.

While fishing the Tongariro River in New Zealand, there was a house on the river that had this sculpture in the side yard. I thought it was pretty cool. After showing the pictures to a friend of mine, he had one done that was very similar, and put it on his property on the banks of the S. Fork of the Snake.

My favorite wildlife artist, adept with pencil, charcoal, oils, and water color, was a gorgeous work of art named Carol Anne Howell. Gave most of her work away, but I still have a few of her oils and at least one of her pencil drawings.

I knew Gary Swanson and photographed one of his oil paintings while it was still wet, for a full-page Weaver ad that was slated for publication just at the time when Olin was selling Weaver. It never ran, of course.

I panicked when it seemed that I'd smeared his painting. To my vast relief, it turned-out to be an unfinished thorn in the tree that the leopard was lying in. Whew!

Cool! I imagine you and Leon have lots in common. I'm not soley into preditors, but would love to see your work displayed too. What little i've seen of your sketches/works looks well 'finished' and nicely proportioned (am I making sense?). Your coyote sketch looks like s snapshot.

Several years ago the Rocky Mtn Mule Deer Expos were held in Salt Lake city for several years, and the annual Elk Expo one year as well. I believe Leon's wife or manager was at all of them. Of course several artists were there as well, but its easy to remember the favorite ones.

Two more of Troy's prints; had to take 'em down off the wall for this pic due to the reflection in my office...

Very nice

Thanks TiLug, here is a little clearer image.


StubbleDuck here is another for you that perhaps you'll like a little more than a coyote.

Very nice work.

Veeeery nice, Big Sky!

I could get into those bear prints. And that is a gorgeous non-typical mulie buck.

Thank you!

What is your web address? Never mind. Found it.

Are copies of that buck for sale?

I have never had money for collecting stuff but have always enjoyed outdoor art. Lucky for me there is a museum of western art a few miles from home. If y'all ever find yourself passing through the Southern tier of NY, give a shout and I'll take you there. You can look through some of their collection on-line.

Rockwell Museum of Western Art

My favorite painting is probably the one of Mt. Whitney by Albert Bierstad. Of course, the thumbnails on-line do no justice to the paintings. They come alive when you see them in person.

StubbleDuck, yes as a matter of fact both the bear and the muley are available as prints.

Double bear print: $40.00
Non-typical Mule Deer $20.00
Plus $6.00 for shipping in the US.
Just PM me for shipping details if you are interested.
Thanks,
Troy

I was fortunate to get to examine and handle two original Rungius dry point's this week (grizzly and caribou) as well as an original Luke Frazier oil (antelope)... there's nothing quite like looking closely at the real McCoy!

Brad I've never seen a Rungius in person. I envy the opportunity you had.

My wife is an artist. I still remember the time, about 15 years ago, that we visited Finn Richards' gallery Santa Fe. We had a few glasses of wine (it was well after closing time) and I mentioned that I had always loved Rungius' work. To my surprise, he took us into his back room and showed me a half-dozen of Rungius' originals, including a moose and a mountain goat painting, both of which I dearly loved.

I could have probably financed the acquisition of one of those with a phone call, but did not realize it at the time. It's probably better that I did not, as I would not have bought as many firearms or as many hunts as I have since then. At this stage in my life, I value those memories more, but I am sure that my kids would wish that I had taken the plunge...

A retired friend of mine here in Montana has quite a few original paintings, mostly by Bob Kuhn and Dave Wade. He bought them years ago, and has so many that he has to rotate them on the walls of his house. He's getting old enough now that he's starting to think about selling them off (he's already started selling his hunting rifles off) but can't bear to think about parting with any. He doesn't need the money (though he's by no means rich) and the paintings have become part of his everyday life, now that he's pretty much given up hunting and traveling.

Finialy got my employers father in laws website.. Anyway here it is..

http://www.davebartholet.com/index.html

Anyone ever look at Al Agnew and his work? He lives fairly close to me and I know his father and younger brother. They are good people and I have several Agnew paintings. Here is a link to his site...

www.alagnew.com

What about another forum topic could be Art, trophies and photography?

http://www.hillbilly-photo.com

Shameless plug for my old hunting buddy Jim Flinchbaugh.

Back in the early 90's I was with my friend Tom Daly and we visited with his friend Dan Galbreath at his farm in Ohio. Now deceased, Dan had an amazing amount of original wildlife art including Rungius and a handful of the histories finest painters. I don't think there was a "print" in the house.

I remember Tom telling me about his first "one man show" back in the early 80's in NY city. Before the show even opened, Dan bought ALL the paintings!